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It's been a pain for years - though just Internet years - to move a huge document from your computer to someone else's. Try emailing that 24-meg movie trailer to a few dozen recipients and see what your network administrator has to say. FTP? Sure, but does your grandma FTP? There's got to be a better way.

A good fix for the file-swap quandary, click2send.com is mysteriously simple: Go to the site, choose a favorite hulkingly mammoth file from your hard drive, and click Deposit a File. Recipients grab their own password-protected copies by going to the site and clicking Pick Up a File. Although the servers delete all documents after 10 days, the service is also oddly free.

There are a few little kinks, but they may be ironed out by the time you read this. When I sent a file from my Mac using Navigator, it showed up with a long, strange name, though it was still usable. But since the service lets you automatically notify recipients by email, it's quick enough to use every day.